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I'm regularly running into trouble with filling up my hard drives. I need a tool to warn me when I reach my disk limits. I don't want to use the built in XP system tool because I just don't like using anything that comes built in. What good freeware/shareware do you guys use and why? Obviously, for something this simple that needs to be running continuously, it needs to be simple and lightweight. Thanks!

hmm... I imagine you are looking for an updated version of Disk Watchman. It *seems* this specific kind of tools died with the arrival of Vista? I have not been able to find any new ones, only big multi-tools like FreeMeter.

hmm... I imagine you are looking for an updated version of Disk Watchman. It *seems* this specific kind of tools died with the arrival of Vista? I have not been able to find any new ones, only big multi-tools like FreeMeter.

Yeah, that does sound good. I like that company, also. The last update to their software was 2005, but maybe it still works.

I also used to have a program called HDlife or HDDlife, I wonder if that can do what I'm asking?

Its free I used it on xp some years ago, then I changed my hard drive so didnt contiued using it. The second one is also freewares, but among sharewares PA WatchDISK looks good but it alittle expensive, so depends on you what exctly you want to do.

Project Description: Meerkat sends admins an email alert whenever a disk runs low on free space. Written in C# .NET, Meerkat is a tiny unintrusive service configured by a separate small GUI. From the GUI you can set which disks to monitor, the free space threshold, who to notify, and the location of an SMTP server. Runs on Windows Server 2000/2003/2008 and Windows XP/Vista. The project is a Visual Studio 2008 project.

Why?: Why write another disk space checker when there's already quite a few out there? I guess there are two categories of checkers - suites like What's Up Gold that perform all sorts of checks and cost plenty of cash, or shareware apps that do exactly what Meerkat does but ask you to pay for it. I couldn't find anything that was simple, small and free. So I wrote Meerkat, and it's been monitoring a variety of servers in the workplace and at home for almost a year now.

The one you really might be wanting could be another Disk Space Monitor; jongrieve.net's Disk Space Monitor. It hasn't been updated for several years, but works all the same. At least it does on my 32-bits Vista:

As you can see, the colours of each icon shows how much space there is on each disk. If you point at an icon, it will pop up and tell the exact size. No other features. Perfect!?

As you can see, the colours of each icon shows how much space there is on each disk. If you point at an icon, it will pop up and tell the exact size. No other features. Perfect!?

As seen on the screenshot, the icons from Disk Space Monitor are displayed in a "wrong" order. I wrote the author and asked if this could be 'fixed', even though the program is very old. To my surprise he answered me in a couple of hours:

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Hi Curt,

DiskMon will try and add the icons in a sensible order, but ultimately it is up to Windows how they end up being displayed. You might want to try manually tweaking the order, by changing the Registry entry where DiskMon stores it's settings.. HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Jon Grieve\DiskMon - DefaultDrives

DefaultDrives stores list list of drive letters ("FEDC"), and you need to specify them in reverse order - again, this is due to the way that Windows adds system tray icons.

Beyond that, I think it is out of my control, and I don't really update these utilities any more.

When any action from the PC it is running happens, it triggers the software and at that moment a (transparent) item shows up in a designated area of your screen(s) which tells you how much of the associated resources are consumed.